Cant Restore Differential Backup

  • I restored a Full Backup from 12:30 AM this morning and I specified WITH NORECOVERY.

    Then I attempted to restore a differential Backup that I made at 10:30 AM and I specified WITH RECOVERY.

    However I get the following error as if I had specified recovery on the full backup:

    Msg 3136, Level 16, State 1, Line 1

    This differential backup cannot be restored because the database has not been restored to the correct earlier state.

    Msg 3013, Level 16, State 1, Line 1

    RESTORE DATABASE is terminating abnormally.

    Any ideas would be greatly appreciated?

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  • There was another full backup taken (without the copy_only option) sometime between the full that you took and the diff that you took.

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
    SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

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